A proposal from a member of Caterham Properties Ltd to convert the abandoned garage into flats has been deemed invalid because of missing documents

Plans to convert a Caterham eyesore into flats have already hit trouble after Tandridge District Council said the scheme was invalid due to a number of missing documents.

An application to convert the former Rose & Young site in Croydon Road into 68 flats with 116 parking spaces was submitted earlier this year by William Power from Burton upon Trent-based Caterham Properties Ltd.

However the council's planning department said a number of documents were missing from the proposal.

Piers Mason, chief planning officer, said: "We have asked the applicant for more information and we are waiting for that to come in. We haven't refused it but we are saying you haven't submitted this, this and this.

"We are awaiting an affordable housing statement, a contaminated land investigation, economic development statement, foul sewage and utility assessment and a noise assessment."

The application comes ahead of a Tandridge District Council planning policy committee meeting on Tuesday, which will hear the final report by the Rose & Young Task & Finish Working Group.

The group has recommended £50,000 be released from the council's Economic Development Reserve to allow necessary due diligence investigations be carried out and to provide outline details of a viable redevelopment of the site.

This could lead to a joint venture to redevelop the site with compulsory purchase powers if necessary.

The report has recommended: "Without prejudice to the determination of any planning application on its planning merits, the council’s position regarding redevelopment of the site is that it should provide street level uses that would enhance footfall and activity in the area of the site, most likely in the form of retail, to provide an active frontage within the town centre.

"The remainder of the site could provide residential development in the form of flats, including sufficient parking to meet the council’s minimum standards, notwithstanding the location of the site close to public transport links."

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